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ENNIO MORRICONE R.I.P.

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSAugust 5, 2020

MORRICONE LEAVES US WITH SCORES OF SCORES OF FILM SCORES AND MORE by David James Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, who died on July 6, was one of the few in the genre whose music went beyond being merely supportive. Only perhaps Henry Mancini and Lalo Schifrin produced such distinctive outputs and they lacked the adventurousness of Morricone, who combined a compelling lyricism with a panoply of different textures. Mostly he used orchestral variations, but he also found ways of exploring the porous barrier between music as organised sound and life as random sounds. In the last scene of The…

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LETTERS 8 August 2020

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURAugust 5, 2020

BLM PROTESTERS MORE EQUAL THAN THE REST OF US Looking at recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, I have to wonder, why would anyone respect the law now if authorities cave in so easily and appear so weak? Laws are only as strong as the will of police and courts to enforce those laws. The BLM protests have cast serious doubts on the ability of our authorities to maintain any consistent stance on law enforcement. Australian authorities have gone from Kafka to Orwell, where now some people are more equal than others, and people can be beyond the law if…

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NFF PRIORITISES CLIMATE, FREE MARKETS OVER FARMERS

RURAL AFFAIRSAugust 5, 2020

by Chris McCormack NFF’s covid19 recovery paper misses the mark Climate change and free-trade policies are seen as part of the cure Yet the evidence shows that these policies have, if anything, exacerbated the difficulties facing farmers The National Farmers Federation’s Get Australia Growing: Ideas for Economic Recovery paper, released in June, is a hotchpotch of some sensible ideas mixed with others that will inflict further damage on Australian agricultural production and jeopardise farmers’ survival. While calling for increased investment in regional infrastructure and development, consistent regulation of organic farming, retaining expanded accelerated depreciation provisions and prioritising delivering AgriStarter loans…

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ZZZOMBIE ZONE … AUZTRALIA

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURAugust 5, 2020

by Pat MacStuttles, Theobogan Scomo, I, Patrick MacStuttles, think your team are doing an EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) job, navigating HMAZ Auztralia through very rough waters, sailing a treacherous Lassiterz reef! Struth! Imagine if the walking red were at the helm! With godless Leftovikz on the bridge, industries would be disintegrating, shipwreckz everywhere! But, Scomo, don’t get too comfy! Three sectors of Australian businezz have been completely dezerted by your Government. None of the generous support packages for struggling enterprises decimated by coronavirus has any quidz at all for Town Crierz, Village Idiotz, or Theoboganz! For the Big…

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